How do I create an artist book with text and beautiful images from start to finish for digital print

This is much like a few other recent inquiries, and the question really distills down to "How do I use InDesign?"

There are two facets to what you're asking. One is a reasonable mastery of InDesign as a tool, so that you can do the layout, import the images correctly, and set it all up for printing or other output. For that, the suggestions to work through some of the basic tutorials are the right direction. Until you are comfortable working with the techical elements, there's not much value in explaining the more subtle aspects of book layout.

The other part is a grasp of print and layout esthetics — using the tools to make something "beautiful" — and that is not as easily taught. Either you have those basic skills, or acquired them from another endeavor, or you're going to have to develop them.

If you have one or a few projects in mind for some content, Derek's suggestion of using one of the template-based service printers is probably the easiest road. If you want to get into this on a larger scale... those tutorials are the starting place.

Alternatively Photobook printing companies like Bob Books https://www.bobbooks.co.uk/ and Blurb https://www.blurb.co.uk/ have templates and software to make it easier for those without InDesign skills to create such books.

Hi,

I would suggest you to watch some InDesign training videos on LinkedIn Learning.